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Actually, were demonstrating google glass today. Its not currently on the market. Were in the experimental phase. This is one of our earlier models, youre likely to see some models out and about that are a little bit different, but right now were showing our floor model. Were very much getting this version of google glass in the hands of as many explorers as possible and gathering their feedback or what they think we cannism prove about it. Host so what can people do with it . Guest you can actu...

Facebook. Follow us on twitter in September Harvard universitys institute of politics in the Internet Association hosted a conference on internet policy and it included a panel of executives from google yahoo facebook yelp tripadvisor and ebay along with federal and local government professionals. Topics covered include Consumer Privacy and government regulation of the internet this. Is three hours well, good morning good morning i feel like we should vote on something but we are not going to do...

Inspection is the rapid disappearance of tropical forests and grass lands and other habitats where most of the diversity of life exists. With these global changes going onto say, we are needlessly turning the goals we have inherited from forebearers into straw. For that we will be despised by our descendents california has the most far reaching environmental laws of any state, and the most integrated policy to deal with Climate Change of any political jurisdiction in the western hemisphere under...

Subject to the subpoena, so another hear beiing may well be necessary. I want to thank dr. Paul brown for his tireless efforts on this subject as well as so many other subjects that have come before this Sub Committee. We appreciate his Public Service and his dedication over the years to his constituents, to congress and to our country. So chairman brown, thank you, again, for all youve done. We appreciate all your great work, and i look forward to todays hearing. Thank you, mr. Smith. As i anno...

Subject to the subpoena, so another hear beiing may well be necessary. I want to thank dr. Paul brown for his tireless efforts on this subject as well as so many other subjects that have come before this Sub Committee. We appreciate his Public Service and his dedication over the years to his constituents, to congress and to our country. So chairman brown, thank you, again, for all youve done. We appreciate all your great work, and i look forward to todays hearing. Thank you, mr. Smith. As i anno...

It comes to Government Agencies . So, there are a couple of different aspects to your question. Certainly, from our perspective, weve gotten a lot of feedback of sources, bunch including the sector coordinating councils, our different agencies that have connections with different industries, treasury with the Financial Services industry, the Energy Department with the energy providers. And our own connections with the tech sector. In general, the feedback has been very positive for the framework...

Really to two root problems. The first is that the Cyber Systems that we rely on are inherently vulnerable. So the commercial operating systems, the commercial software packages, the commercial hardware platforms, these are all designed rimarily to address profit motives. They are easily obtained by the attacker. They can exploit and find the vulnerabilities in those systems and that is largely what they take advantage of. Thats probably not going to change any time soon. And then the second pro...

Apps and in many cases are using only a handful of apps that they find on their home screens . The good news is there are literally billions of apps being downloaded. So there are definitely people downloading apps. So, you know, we have, for example, 250,000 new users every single day on flip board that are coming in and setting up flip board. So people are definitely still downloading. But i also think you have to figure out, you know, smart strategies, so, for example our Publishing Partners ...

100 years old and needed more business. So this is really the economy we see. When we look at the internet or look at the political challenges in the United States and all the issues and all the sniping, what we see is, when people selforganize, they use the internet to connect with each other and they work with each other. Then the economy works. Great. So i think people can envision transformation when it affects them and they have a hard time when it doesnt. People in d. C. Understand the tra...

Private quarters for the president and first lady. This is not part of the tour that is offered to the public. This is never been open to the public. Because of the cspan special access, you are getting to see this. Its not open to our visitors on a daily basis. The remarkable thing about this space is its a living breathing thing, it hasnt changed it also is resident johnson died in 1973. There is a document signed by the archivist of the United States. It nothing in this room it can change. We...